# A Criminal, Cloned. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criminal-cloned/481674 "2009-01-16T23:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criminal-cloned/481674/23 "2009-01-17T19:43:11Z")
> [@A question for logical Mormons in the know.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-logical-mormons-in-the-know/50497/119): > > In the case present here, it seems intuitively obvious that only one of them did the deed, thus only one of them is culpable. However, what if we made the copy, and then destroyed the original? This was my problem in thinking about it. Trying to seperate the guilt into just one, I could only come up with a method of physicality; they have the same minds, motivations, memories and so on, so the difference must lie in that it was not that particular version that did the deed. But by that logic, killing the original destroys the guilt, and what’s more if instead of a copy the mind is transferred into the clone, likewise it could be argued that the guilt is gone too, as the physicality is just as different. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criminal-cloned/481674)._